You can customize the Cognos Connection interface for Cognos 8 to resemble your corporate branding. In order to do this you must modify the system.xml file and place your logo within your Cognos install path location.
- Start off by placing the image in …Cognos 8 install path/c8\webcontent\skins\companyXYZ\branding\
- Back up the system.xml file! Open the file using Notepad or an XML editor.
- Find the element tag “<!—Custom OEM headers -->”.
- Uncomment the xml element tag and then add the following section:
<!-- Custom OEM headers -->
<param name="OEM">
<!--Specify custom Cognos Connection / Cognos Viewer left side header here in the form of XHTML snippets.
-->
<customHeader showContext="false" contextDelimiter="">
<style styleFolderName="companyXYZstyle">
<table style="background-color:#2d5d3d">
<tr>
<td><img src="../skins/companyXYZstyle/branding/XYZLogo.gif"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</style>
<style styleFolderName="corporate">
<table style="background-color:#ffffff">
<tr>
<td><img src="../skins/corporate/branding/XYZLogo.gif"/></td>
<td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;whitespace:nowrap"> Company XYZ </td>
</tr>
</table>
</style>
<style styleFolderName="classic">
<table style="background-color:#cccccc">
<tr>
<td><img src="../skins/classic/branding/XYZLogo.gif"/></td>
<td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;whitespace:nowrap"> Company XYZ </td>
</tr>
</table>
</style>
</customHeader>
</param>
5. Restart the Cognos 8 service for these changes to take affect.